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Election. don t forget, $60 million has already been disbursed for elections to happen. the agenda is out. the electoral decree is out. if you want to leave this country you have to go through an election to receive the vote of the people and only the haitian people and only the haitian people can decide who can leave the country, who can take the country forward, and that s what we re going to do, according to the constitution. mathias pierre, haiti s minister for elections. let s get some of the day s other news. on the 60th anniversary of a friendship treaty between china and north korea, kim jong un and president xi jinping have exchanged messages, promising greater co operation. according to the north korean news agency, mr kim said their relationship was vital in the face of hostile foreign forces. china is north korea s only major ally. the statues of two confederate generals have been removed from the us city of charlottesville in virginia. the monument to robert e lee was take ....
Singles final. we begin in haiti where the wife of the late president, who was assassinated on wednesday, has posted an audio message on twitter describing the moment gunmen stormed their home. she was injured and taken to a hospital in miami. the killing has thrown the country into deep political turmoil with haiti asking both the un and the us to send military support. in a moment, we ll hearfrom haiti s minister for elections. but firest this report from the bbc s rich preston. as haiti s future remains uncertain some ordinary haitians are ....
Fearful that the situation might deteriorate even further. haiti is the poorest country in the americas. the first lady says her husband planned to change the constitution to improve the lives of ordinary people. speaking in creole, she described wednesday s attack. translation: in the blinki of an eye, the mercenaries entered my home and riddled my husband with bullets, without even giving him a chance to say a word. we cannot let the country lose its way. we cannot let his blood have been spilled in vain. but his proposed constitutional changes made him enemies. many said he just wanted to extend his time in office. the haitian government says 28 foreign mercenaries were involved in the attack and that most of them have been arrested or killed. three people now claim to lead the country an interim prime minister, claudejoseph, a new prime minister ariel henry, who s yet to be sworn in, and joseph lambert, nominated as the new president. haiti has now asked for ....
International help to maintain calm on the streets. whether that will come is unclear. rich preston, bbc news. for more on this, i ve been speaking to haiti s minister for elections. i asked him what he knew about anyone who might have wanted to assassinate the president. the president was fighting a lot of battles. one was to effectively change the constitution because the constitution, it s bringing a lot of instability and he believed that to change the constitution would make lives of people better. the second was the fight against corruption, particularly those leading the government, on the energy sector, constructions, on other big areas that he was trying to regulate, and those had created a lot of enemies of the president so i do understand when the first lady said that. ....
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